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vertebral column

noun as in backbone

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noun as in spine

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The team found part of the dinosaur's skull, a complete vertebral column extending to the tail, and nearly intact forelimbs and hindlimbs, said CONICET.

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Type 2 diabetes alters the behavior of discs in the vertebral column, making them stiffer, and also causes the discs to change shape earlier than normal.

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“We measured the whole vertebral skeleton of a living great white shark with a CT scanner and compared that to the previous reconstruction of the Megalodon vertebral column,” Sternes said.

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They also used two-dimensional shape analysis techniques to examine variation in the spatial distribution of mineral structures along the vertebral column.

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It is early days, but we have used gastruloids to study the process of somitogenesis, the process that generates the vertebral column and the muscles.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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